Microservices Job Trends

Microservices
UK

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs requiring Microservices skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 11 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
11 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 113 78 54
Rank change year-on-year -35 -24 -9
Permanent jobs citing Microservices 1,271 1,612 3,541
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 1.74% 3.68% 4.23%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.23% 3.93% 4.83%
Number of salaries quoted 855 1,045 2,814
10th Percentile £52,400 £47,500 £45,000
25th Percentile £61,250 £57,500 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £77,500 £74,870 £67,500
Median % change year-on-year +3.51% +10.92% -13.62%
75th Percentile £95,000 £93,778 £86,250
90th Percentile £120,000 £113,979 £105,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £67,500 £68,525 £65,000
% change year-on-year -1.50% +5.42% -

All Process & Methodology Skills
UK

Microservices falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 56,972 41,045 73,238
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 78.05% 93.61% 87.51%
Number of salaries quoted 34,330 22,188 55,854
10th Percentile £29,750 £32,500 £29,000
25th Percentile £40,000 £45,000 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +9.09% -11.31%
75th Percentile £77,419 £80,000 £73,750
90th Percentile £97,500 £102,500 £94,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -9.09% +10.00% -8.90%

Microservices
Job Vacancy Trend

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Microservices relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised.

Microservices job vacancy trend in the UK

Microservices
Salary Trend

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Microservices.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Microservices

Microservices
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Microservices over the 6 months to 11 March 2026.

Salary histogram for Microservices in the UK

Microservices
Top 18 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Microservices within the UK over the 6 months to 11 March 2026. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
England -37 1,160 £77,500 +3.33% 544
London +5 644 £87,500 - 174
Work from Home -29 554 £72,750 +1.05% 411
UK excluding London -103 523 £67,500 -1.50% 376
North of England -36 237 £67,500 -3.57% 111
North West -40 113 £67,500 - 52
South East -102 100 £75,000 +11.11% 113
Yorkshire -34 98 £70,000 -2.77% 33
South West -59 61 £67,500 -1.50% 43
Midlands -56 56 £67,500 +3.85% 52
East of England -14 35 £62,500 +8.70% 30
West Midlands -27 33 £67,500 -3.57% 32
North East -8 26 £55,200 +5.14% 27
Scotland -81 26 £62,500 -16.67% 21
East Midlands -62 22 £67,500 +3.85% 20
Wales -11 7 £55,200 +17.02% 12
Northern Ireland -28 5 £62,500 +4.17%
Channel Islands - 1 £90,000 -

Microservices
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 27 (2.12%) Apache Spark
2 21 (1.65%) Apache
3 20 (1.57%) Apache Airflow
3 20 (1.57%) Oracle SOA Suite
4 19 (1.49%) Confluence
5 13 (1.02%) JBoss
5 13 (1.02%) OpenStack
6 11 (0.87%) WebSphere
7 8 (0.63%) CMS
7 8 (0.63%) IIS
8 7 (0.55%) Appian
9 5 (0.39%) Apache Pulsar
10 4 (0.31%) nginx
11 3 (0.24%) Camunda
11 3 (0.24%) GeoServer
11 3 (0.24%) Liferay
11 3 (0.24%) NServiceBus
11 3 (0.24%) Oracle Workflow
12 1 (0.079%) SharePoint
12 1 (0.079%) Strapi
Applications
1 15 (1.18%) MS Visio
2 11 (0.87%) Maya
2 11 (0.87%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 4 (0.31%) PlantUML
4 3 (0.24%) Microsoft Excel
4 3 (0.24%) Microsoft Office
5 2 (0.16%) Adobe XD
Business Applications
1 11 (0.87%) Oracle ERP
2 9 (0.71%) Endur
3 6 (0.47%) Payment Gateway
4 4 (0.31%) Dynamics AX
5 3 (0.24%) SAP FS
6 2 (0.16%) Dynamics CRM
6 2 (0.16%) Oracle Payables
6 2 (0.16%) Oracle Receivables
6 2 (0.16%) SAP S/4HANA
7 1 (0.079%) Actimize
7 1 (0.079%) Bloomberg AIM
7 1 (0.079%) Distributed Ledger
7 1 (0.079%) Fidessa
7 1 (0.079%) Quorum
7 1 (0.079%) R3 Corda
7 1 (0.079%) Shopify
7 1 (0.079%) Temenos T24
Cloud Services
1 699 (55.00%) AWS
2 567 (44.61%) Azure
3 274 (21.56%) GCP
4 229 (18.02%) Serverless
5 165 (12.98%) SaaS
6 115 (9.05%) GitHub
7 107 (8.42%) Amazon S3
8 101 (7.95%) AWS Lambda
9 97 (7.63%) Azure DevOps
10 94 (7.40%) Amazon EKS
11 67 (5.27%) AWS CloudFormation
12 64 (5.04%) Amazon SQS
13 60 (4.72%) Amazon ECS
14 48 (3.78%) GitHub Actions
15 47 (3.70%) Amazon CloudWatch
16 46 (3.62%) Amazon EC2
17 44 (3.46%) OpenShift
18 42 (3.30%) PaaS
19 36 (2.83%) Azure Service Bus
20 32 (2.52%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 31 (2.44%) Broadband
2 12 (0.94%) HTTP
3 9 (0.71%) AMQP
4 6 (0.47%) Internet
4 6 (0.47%) Network Security
5 5 (0.39%) MQTT
6 4 (0.31%) Cisco ASA
6 4 (0.31%) DHCP
6 4 (0.31%) DNS
6 4 (0.31%) Firewall
6 4 (0.31%) HTTPS
6 4 (0.31%) SNMP
6 4 (0.31%) WAN
7 3 (0.24%) Multicast
8 2 (0.16%) LTE
8 2 (0.16%) Modbus
8 2 (0.16%) SSL
8 2 (0.16%) TCP/IP
9 1 (0.079%) TCAP
9 1 (0.079%) Value-Added Service
Database & Business Intelligence
1 180 (14.16%) NoSQL
2 169 (13.30%) PostgreSQL
3 125 (9.83%) MongoDB
4 118 (9.28%) SQL Server
5 69 (5.43%) MySQL
6 64 (5.04%) DynamoDB
7 62 (4.88%) Relational Database
8 47 (3.70%) Elasticsearch
9 39 (3.07%) Redis
10 28 (2.20%) Big Data
10 28 (2.20%) BigQuery
11 27 (2.12%) Amazon RDS
12 24 (1.89%) Azure SQL Database
13 23 (1.81%) RDBMS
14 17 (1.34%) Power BI
15 13 (1.02%) DB2
15 13 (1.02%) Pinecone
16 12 (0.94%) Data Warehouse
16 12 (0.94%) Tableau
17 10 (0.79%) Data Lake
Development Applications
1 168 (13.22%) Git
2 120 (9.44%) Jenkins
3 77 (6.06%) GitLab
4 50 (3.93%) TeamCity
5 46 (3.62%) JIRA
6 38 (2.99%) Cucumber
7 37 (2.91%) JUnit
8 33 (2.60%) Selenium
9 30 (2.36%) Cypress.io
10 26 (2.05%) CircleCI
11 20 (1.57%) Mockito
12 19 (1.49%) Bitbucket
12 19 (1.49%) Maven
13 13 (1.02%) JMeter
14 11 (0.87%) Oracle Forms
14 11 (0.87%) Postman
14 11 (0.87%) Vite
15 8 (0.63%) REST Assured
16 7 (0.55%) Claude Code
16 7 (0.55%) git-flow
General
1 381 (29.98%) Finance
2 370 (29.11%) Social Skills
3 159 (12.51%) Banking
4 103 (8.10%) Law
5 95 (7.47%) Analytical Skills
6 84 (6.61%) Public Sector
7 69 (5.43%) Retail
8 63 (4.96%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 56 (4.41%) Financial Institution
10 50 (3.93%) Telecoms
11 42 (3.30%) Back Office
12 25 (1.97%) Games
13 24 (1.89%) Influencing Skills
14 23 (1.81%) Billing
14 23 (1.81%) Presentation Skills
15 17 (1.34%) Advertising
15 17 (1.34%) Legal
16 14 (1.10%) Marketing
17 12 (0.94%) Front Office
18 11 (0.87%) French Language
Job Titles
1 426 (33.52%) Developer
2 333 (26.20%) Senior
3 250 (19.67%) Software Engineer
4 213 (16.76%) Architect
5 162 (12.75%) Lead
6 118 (9.28%) Senior Developer
7 113 (8.89%) Full-Stack Developer
8 108 (8.50%) Java Developer
9 102 (8.03%) Solutions Architect
10 86 (6.77%) Senior Software Engineer
11 83 (6.53%) Java Engineer
12 73 (5.74%) .NET Developer
13 50 (3.93%) Full-Stack Engineer
14 49 (3.86%) Java Software Engineer
15 47 (3.70%) Lead Developer
15 47 (3.70%) Software Developer
16 39 (3.07%) Full-Stack Java Developer
16 39 (3.07%) Principal Engineer
16 39 (3.07%) Senior Java Developer
17 36 (2.83%) Cloud Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 290 (22.82%) React
2 283 (22.27%) .NET
3 254 (19.98%) RESTful
4 225 (17.70%) Spring
5 203 (15.97%) REST
6 198 (15.58%) Spring Boot
7 182 (14.32%) Kafka
8 180 (14.16%) Node.js
9 110 (8.65%) AngularJS
10 95 (7.47%) .NET Core
11 73 (5.74%) gRPC
11 73 (5.74%) HTML
12 66 (5.19%) .NET Framework
13 61 (4.80%) CSS
14 59 (4.64%) RabbitMQ
15 56 (4.41%) Middleware
16 52 (4.09%) ASP.NET
16 52 (4.09%) Django
17 47 (3.70%) Hibernate
18 44 (3.46%) Next.js
Miscellaneous
1 363 (28.56%) Cloud Native
2 207 (16.29%) Distributed Systems
3 108 (8.50%) Enterprise Software
4 107 (8.42%) Product Ownership
5 56 (4.41%) Greenfield Project
6 47 (3.70%) Legacy Systems
7 38 (2.99%) Data Structures
8 32 (2.52%) Algorithms
8 32 (2.52%) Self-Motivation
9 28 (2.20%) Over-the-Top Content
9 28 (2.20%) Video\Live Streaming
10 27 (2.12%) Virtual Team
11 25 (1.97%) AI Agents
11 25 (1.97%) Blockchain
12 24 (1.89%) Distributed Architecture
13 19 (1.49%) Mobile App
14 17 (1.34%) Management Information System
15 16 (1.26%) IoT
16 15 (1.18%) Public Cloud
17 13 (1.02%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 54 (4.25%) Linux
2 21 (1.65%) Windows
3 18 (1.42%) Android
4 9 (0.71%) Apple iOS
5 5 (0.39%) CentOS
5 5 (0.39%) Debian
5 5 (0.39%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 5 (0.39%) Ubuntu
6 4 (0.31%) Unix
7 2 (0.16%) VMS
8 1 (0.079%) Fedora
8 1 (0.079%) Kali Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 614 (48.31%) CI/CD
2 549 (43.19%) Agile
3 502 (39.50%) DevOps
4 480 (37.77%) Software Engineering
5 352 (27.69%) Containerisation
6 298 (23.45%) Full-Stack Development
7 274 (21.56%) Problem-Solving
8 267 (21.01%) Mentoring
9 249 (19.59%) Event-Driven
10 234 (18.41%) AI
11 232 (18.25%) Test Automation
12 229 (18.02%) Continuous Improvement
13 203 (15.97%) Computer Science
14 167 (13.14%) Infrastructure as Code
15 159 (12.51%) Scrum
16 156 (12.27%) Technical Leadership
17 148 (11.64%) Event-Driven Architecture
18 144 (11.33%) TDD
19 142 (11.17%) Roadmaps
20 141 (11.09%) Architectural Patterns
Programming Languages
1 439 (34.54%) Java
2 328 (25.81%) Python
3 267 (21.01%) SQL
4 251 (19.75%) JavaScript
5 244 (19.20%) C#
6 215 (16.92%) TypeScript
7 102 (8.03%) Go
8 37 (2.91%) PHP
9 34 (2.68%) Scala
10 30 (2.36%) Bash
11 29 (2.28%) C++
12 26 (2.05%) C
13 24 (1.89%) Ruby
14 22 (1.73%) PL/SQL
15 21 (1.65%) Kotlin
16 19 (1.49%) Shell Script
17 15 (1.18%) Rust
18 12 (0.94%) PowerShell
19 6 (0.47%) Bicep
19 6 (0.47%) R
Qualifications
1 208 (16.37%) Degree
2 140 (11.01%) Computer Science Degree
3 109 (8.58%) Security Cleared
4 76 (5.98%) SC Cleared
5 63 (4.96%) AWS Certification
6 50 (3.93%) Master's Degree
7 42 (3.30%) Azure Certification
8 39 (3.07%) TOGAF Certification
9 35 (2.75%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 30 (2.36%) Microsoft Certification
11 17 (1.34%) DV Cleared
12 14 (1.10%) CISSP
13 12 (0.94%) AWS Certified Developer
14 10 (0.79%) CISM
14 10 (0.79%) PMI Certification
14 10 (0.79%) PMP
15 8 (0.63%) DBS Check
16 6 (0.47%) ISTQB
16 6 (0.47%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
17 5 (0.39%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 77 (6.06%) QA
2 28 (2.20%) PCI DSS
3 26 (2.05%) Accessibility
4 25 (1.97%) GDPR
5 18 (1.42%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 12 (0.94%) NIST
7 11 (0.87%) SOC 2
8 10 (0.79%) NCSC
9 8 (0.63%) EMIR
10 6 (0.47%) GRC
11 5 (0.39%) IFRS
11 5 (0.39%) SLA
12 3 (0.24%) Data Quality
12 3 (0.24%) IFRS 17
12 3 (0.24%) SEPA
12 3 (0.24%) Solvency II
13 2 (0.16%) Actionable Recommendations
13 2 (0.16%) HMG Security Policy Framework
13 2 (0.16%) PSD2
13 2 (0.16%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 386 (30.37%) Docker
2 15 (1.18%) Active Directory
3 4 (0.31%) Firmware
4 2 (0.16%) Virtual Machines
4 2 (0.16%) VMware NSX
4 2 (0.16%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 392 (30.84%) Kubernetes
2 219 (17.23%) Terraform
3 81 (6.37%) Grafana
4 63 (4.96%) Ansible
5 34 (2.68%) Prometheus
6 25 (1.97%) Kibana
7 14 (1.10%) Argo
8 11 (0.87%) Single Sign-On
9 9 (0.71%) HP Fortify
10 6 (0.47%) Puppet
11 4 (0.31%) Cilium
11 4 (0.31%) Istio
12 3 (0.24%) Nagios
12 3 (0.24%) Rancher
13 2 (0.16%) Opsgenie
14 1 (0.079%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 136 (10.70%) Microsoft
2 51 (4.01%) Oracle
3 49 (3.86%) Google
4 28 (2.20%) Typelevel
5 17 (1.34%) SAP
6 16 (1.26%) OpenAI
6 16 (1.26%) Salesforce
7 15 (1.18%) Red Hat
8 14 (1.10%) Software AG
8 14 (1.10%) Splunk
9 13 (1.02%) CrowdStrike
9 13 (1.02%) Dynatrace
10 12 (0.94%) BiZZdesign
11 11 (0.87%) Atlassian
11 11 (0.87%) MuleSoft
12 10 (0.79%) Databricks
12 10 (0.79%) IBM
12 10 (0.79%) Palo Alto
13 9 (0.71%) Guidewire
14 8 (0.63%) Cisco